BIOGRAPHY
Adalberto M. Riva graduated in piano with honours from
the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He then attended master classes of
Franco Gei, Viktor Merzhanov, Nazzareno
Carusi, Paul Badura-Skoda, Vitaly
Margulis, Vladimir Krpan, Bruno Canino, Aldo Ciccolini in Italy, Germany,
France, England and U.S.A., as well as attending the Accademia Pianistica in
Imola from 1995 to 1998, and the Lausanne Conservatory of Music where he
achieved his Virtuosité with professor Dag
Achatz from 1999 to 2001, with whom he was invited as assistant at EPTA
Summer School in Dubrovnik in the year 2000.
Riva was a
semifinalist in the Martha del Vecchio Piano Competition in Arenzano (Italy)
and the Premio Venezia Competition and was a prizewinner in other Italian piano
competitions, including the Selezione Giovani Pianisti Alberto Mozzati (1987 –
1988), Concorso Schubert (1988) and the Città di Albenga (1991 – 1992). He was also a prizewinner at the Cava dei Tirreni
International Piano Competition (1993) . In 1995 Adalberto Riva was awarded the
A.R.A.M. prize to underwrite a concert tour to Poland and Germany, and to take
part in the Musica 2000 Review presented by CIDIM in Rome in 1996.
He appears regularly as recitalist, chamber musician
and piano soloist especially in Italy and in Switzerland: among the most
important performances it must note concerts with Milan Conservatory Orchestra
in Brescia and Bergamo International Festival and in Salzburg at the Mozarteum
in 1991, with the Filarmonica Banatul in Timisoara (Romania) under the baton of
Jean-François Antonioli in 1998-1999-2000, with a video recording broadcasted
by Swiss television, with Angelicum and Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestras in Milan;
recitals in St. Petersburg, Hamburg. Lübeck, Kiel, Warsaw, Malta; in Italy
recitals in Milan, Cremona, Florence, Montepulciano, Bologna, Rome, Naples, and
others for many musical institutions and associations in the North and in the
South of the country, in Switzerland recitals in Lausanne, Geneva, Yverdon,
Romainmôtier, Vevey, Neuchâtel, Lugano (Settimane Musicali) and others places,
including the 2003 Schubertiade edition, in cooperation with Swiss radio Espace
2.
During the last year the public liked very much a
cycle of concerts-lectures
about the history of piano literature from Mozart to Debussy, that has been
presented in several music schools and institutions in the Lombardy: Riva is
also chief of this project in “Liceo Musicale Vincenzo Appiani” in Monza, where
he teaches regularly, as well as in “La
Nuova Musica” in Milan. He has also been teaching for several years in the
town of his residence, and in the “Croqu’notes” music school in Versoix, near
Geneva.
Actually he is attending the “Guido Cantelli”
Conservatory of Music in Novara (Italy), in the class of Ettore Borri.